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Some Watergate reactions: Ralph Nader: Nixon should resign because “the Administration is a veritable discount house where law and government are for sale to the highest and most persistent bidder.” Rep. Jonathan Bingham (D., N.Y.): We should call new presidential elections (by constitutional amendment?). Sen. Edmund Muskie: Maybe he’ll run for President again in ’76 (since, presumably, he failed to get the nomination because of CRP skulduggery). Prince Norodom Sihanouk (who got the message in far-off Peking): Nixon shouldn’t resign because then Agnew would be President. . . . Other developments. Pulitzer Prizewinning Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward got a healthy advance from Macmillan months ago for a book on Watergate. . . . Frank Sturgis, one of the original Watergate Five, was, it now turns out, an informant for columnist Jack Anderson for a while; during the trial Anderson offered to take legal custody of Sturgis. . . . Barry Goldwater’s version of how come John Connally came along a fortnight ago. “I told him, ‘You better get your ass in another saddle, John,’ and he said, ‘I’m going to do just that.’ ”… Rep. William Ford (D., Mich.), enjoying it all, says he’s taking up a collection to buy TV time so that Martha Mitchell can defend her husband some more.

Many libertarians, among them Manuel Klausner, editor of the libertarian Reason, coming out for amnesty for draft-resisters and for “deserters who had been drafted” on the grounds that they shouldn’t have been drafted in the first place. . . . Credit for ROTC courses at the University of Massachusetts has been restored, quietly. It was withdrawn a year ago after the mining of Haiphong harbor. . . . Not such a solid front: Some five hundred editors at the American Society of Newspaper Editors meeting in Washington were evenly divided on the question of “shield” laws for newspapermen.

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Some Watergate reactions: Ralph Nader: Nixon should resign because “the Administration is a veritable discount house where law and government are for sale to the highest and most persistent bidder.” Rep. Jonathan Bingham (D., N.Y.): We should call new presidential elections (by constitutional amendment?). Sen. Edmund Muskie: Maybe he’ll run for President again in ’76 (since, presumably, he failed to get the nomination because of CRP skulduggery). Prince Norodom Sihanouk (who got the message in far-off Peking): Nixon shouldn’t resign because then Agnew would be President. . . . Other developments. Pulitzer Prizewinning Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward got a healthy advance from Macmillan months ago for a book on Watergate. . . . Frank Sturgis, one of the original Watergate Five, was, it now turns out, an informant for columnist Jack Anderson for a while; during the trial Anderson offered to take legal custody of Sturgis. . . . Barry Goldwater’s version of how come John Connally came along a fortnight ago. “I told him, ‘You better get your ass in another saddle, John,’ and he said, ‘I’m going to do just that.’ ”… Rep. William Ford (D., Mich.), enjoying it all, says he’s taking up a collection to buy TV time so that Martha Mitchell can defend her husband some more.

Many libertarians, among them Manuel Klausner, editor of the libertarian Reason, coming out for amnesty for draft-resisters and for “deserters who had been drafted” on the grounds that they shouldn’t have been drafted in the first place. . . . Credit for ROTC courses at the University of Massachusetts has been restored, quietly. It was withdrawn a year ago after the mining of Haiphong harbor. . . . Not such a solid front: Some five hundred editors at the American Society of Newspaper Editors meeting in Washington were evenly divided on the question of “shield” laws for newspapermen.